maintaining contribution limits of $250 for City Council races
and $300 for mayoral and city attorney elections. However, after
the changes receive final approval, the limits would be indexed to
the inflation rate.

Other proposals by the Ethics Commission, including one for
public financing, were rejected.

The panelists asked Ethics Commission members to return to a
future meeting with a comparison of the current proposals to state
campaign finance laws.

The full City Council would have to approve changes to the
city's campaign financing law.